{"id":3632,"date":"2010-01-15T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T02:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labs.com\/research\/blog\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2025-06-03T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:20:07","slug":"operation-aurora-leading-to-other-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/operation-aurora-leading-to-other-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Operation Aurora&quot; Leading to Other Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Aurora has received <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27080_3-10436083-245.html\">a lot<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/14\/AR2010011403366.html\">attention<\/a> over the past couple of days.\u00c2\u00a0 To recap, Google, Adobe, and many other companies were attacked with code exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer.\u00c2\u00a0 Since the announcement of this vulnerability (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/advisory\/979352.mspx\">CVE-2010-0249<\/a>), exploit code has been made public and already revised into a more usable form.<\/p>\n<p>History tells us that when exploit code targeting an unpatched vulnerability in popular software is release; a slew of attackers are ready, willing, and able to capitalize.\u00c2\u00a0 What started out as a sophisticated targeted attack is likely to lead to large-scale attacks on vulnerable Microsoft Internet Explorer users.\u00c2\u00a0 This often takes the form of drive-by download sites serving malware to unsuspecting users, lured by links spammed in email, social networking sites, blogs, and poisoned search engine results.<\/p>\n<h2>For More Information<\/h2>\n<p>For more information on this vulnerability, the Operation Aurora attack, and ways to protect your environment see:<br \/>\nMore Details on \u201cOperation Aurora\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Aurora has received a lot of attention over the past couple of days.\u00c2\u00a0 To recap, Google, Adobe, and many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3973],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcafee-labs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Operation Aurora&quot; 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